Error Occurred Attempting Rename Computer Account Already Exists
Join the Community! Creating your account only takes a few minutes. Join Now I renamed my computer and made a mistake in the name . I am on a domain. when I the following error occurred attempting to rename the computer to the account already exists tried to rename it again this message came up [The following error occurred atempting to
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rename the computer to "670LPM1" The accout already exists.] How do I fix this? Reply Subscribe View Best Answer RELATED TOPICS: How the following error occurred attempting to rename the computer the directory service is busy to rename a computer I'll just leave this here... How long should a computer rename take to show up?   This topic was created during version 5.3. The latest version is 7.5.00093. 6 Replies
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Cayenne OP Donald Sewell May 3, 2012 at 1:11 UTC Remove that name from the domain then re-add it. 3 Mace OP Denis Kelley May 3, 2012 at 1:16 UTC You might want to look at this script: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/291
1 Habanero OP ITSlave May 3, 2012 at 1:17 UTC Donald Sewell wrote: Remove that name from the domain then re-add it. the following error occurred attempting to rename the computer the specified domain Seconded. It will save you alot of headaches just to do it like this cleanly. 0 Tabasco OP Data May 3, 2012 at 1:18 UTC Donald Sewell wrote: Remove that name from the domain then re-add it. 0 Ghost Chili OP David9459 May 3, 2012 at 1:20 UTC Easiest way. Donald Sewell wrote: Remove that name from the domain then re-add it. 0 Ghost Chili OP Best Answer _Justin_ May 3, 2012 at 1:30 UTC Like everyone else said, delete the computer account with that name in Active Directory and then rename the machine. 0 This discussion has been inactive for over a year. You may get a better answer to your question by starting a new discussion. Text Quote Post |Replace Attachment Add link Text to display: Where should this link go? Add Cancel × Insert code Language Apache AppleScript Awk BASH Batchfile C C++ C# CSS ERB HTML Java JavaScript Lua ObjectiveC PHP Perl Text Powershell Python R Ruby Sass Scala SQL VB.net Vimscript XML YAML Insert Cancel Join me to this group Reply × Users who spiced this post Read these next... © Copyright 2006-2016 Spiceworks Inc. About Advertising Privacy Terms Help Sitemap &timeStart here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring
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Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it the following error occurred attempting to join the domain the specified account already exists works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Active directory rename computer that has been disconnected up vote 2 down vote favorite 1 We named a new computer https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/222212-i-m-trying-to-rename-my-computer-after-making-a-mistake-in-the-first-name on the domain USER-2014. The computer was for someone who already had a computer on the domain called USER. We discontinued the old computer with name USER and are now looking to rename USER-2014 back to USER. When I attempt to rename I get a message "The following error occurred attempting to rename the computer to 'USER': The account already exists." Which makes sense since there is a computer in active directory called USER. Is it ok to delete the http://serverfault.com/questions/635070/active-directory-rename-computer-that-has-been-disconnected computer called USER from active directory? I assume that would then allow me to rename USER-2014 back to USER. I'm worried that something in the Windows ecosystem is still referencing it and by deleting it there will be a dangling reference somewhere that will cause issues. If I could rename USER to USER-OLD that could also resolve my issue but I can't find a rename function in active directory. What's a best practice here or a reasonable suggestion? Anything would be greatly appreciated. I'm pretty new to network administration. active-directory domain windows share|improve this question asked Oct 10 '14 at 13:02 Adam 4713 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 6 down vote accepted You cover a number of points here, I shall try to address each of them in turn. Is it ok to delete the computer called USER from active directory? It depends. If the old computer has gone, never to return, then probably. Bear in mind that once you delete it (or any object in AD) then you cannot get it back just by recreating a new object with the same name. Each object has a unique security identifier (SID) associated with it and it is this SID that is used when assigning permissions on ACLs, group memberships, etc. Just because a replacement object has the same name does not mean it will inherit the same permissions. That said, for a standard
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here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Rename computer and join to domain in one step with PowerShell up vote 21 down vote favorite 9 Goal: On a computer running Windows Server 2008 R2, use PowerShell 2.0 to: Rename the computer Join the computer to a domain Condition: Steps 1 and 2 must be performed together, i.e., without a computer restart between them Functions I'm Using These are the PowerShell functions I've created for each step. Rename Computer According to my Internet research, PowerShell 2.0 at one point before release had a built-in cmdlet called Rename-Computer, but it was removed for reasons unknown in CTP 3. My version uses WMI. function Rename-Computer { param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$name ) process { try { $computer = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem $result = $computer.Rename($name) switch($result.ReturnValue) { 0 { Write-Host "Success" } 5 { Write-Error "You need administrative rights to execute this cmdlet" exit } default { Write-Host "Error - return value of " $result.ReturnValue exit } } } catch { Write-Host "Exception occurred in Rename-Computer " $Error } } } Join Computer to Domain As you can see, this function is really just a wrapper for the built-in cmdlet Add-Computer that gathers the domain name and creates some credentials to use. function Join-ComputerToDomain { param ( [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)][string]$domain ) process { try { $_domainCredential = $Host.UI.PromptForCredential("Enter domain credentials", "Enter domain credentials to be used when joining computer to the domain", "", "NetBiosUserName") Add-Computer -DomainName $_domain -cred $_domainCredential } catch { Write-Error "Exception occurred in Join-ComputerToDomain " $Error } } } Steps I've Tried Attempt 1 Call Rename-Computer Call Join-ComputerToDomain